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title: Then as the brilliant light of the sun took the place of the glow of… — Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) · tree and pragmatics
description: Then as the brilliant light of the sun took the place of the glow of volcanic fires, clouds of eruptive gases and smoke marked the course of the lava in its flow down the mountain side. Who acts: clouds, volcanic fires, lava. A sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westerv
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# Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology), Na Puu O Pele, sentence 6

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Then as the brilliant light of the sun took the place of the glow of volcanic fires, clouds of eruptive gases and smoke marked the course of the lava in its flow down the mountain side.

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**Who acts:** clouds, volcanic fires, lava · **What happens:** take, mark, light, glow, cloud, flow · **To what, where:** place, course, flow, sun, eruptive gases

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This is a sentence of «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Na Puu O Pele. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clouds, volcanic fires, lava), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg66516:7:6
# text = Then as the brilliant light of the sun took the place of the glow of volcanic fires, clouds of eruptive gases and smoke marked the course of the lava in its flow down the mountain side.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	volcanic	volcanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	eruptive	eruptive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	gases	gas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	lava	lava	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	flow	flow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
34	down	down	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past |  | the place of the glow of volcanic fires |  |  | then | as the brilliant light of the sun | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent place=Theme as light=Attribute |
| 2 | **mark** | past | clouds of eruptive gases and smoke | the course of the lava |  | lava's flow |  | down the mountain side | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent course=Theme in flow=Destination |
| 3 | **light** |  |  | the sun |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **glow** |  | volcanic fires |  |  |  |  |  | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **cloud** |  |  | eruptive gases and smoke |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **flow** |  | lava |  |  |  |  |  | nom flow «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)» by W. D. Westervelt, Project Gutenberg book 66516 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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